Erik Torenberg
Co-Founder & Partner @ Village Global
San Francisco, United States
Erik Torenberg is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on media and networks. Previously, he was the founder of Turpentine, co-founder and partner at Village Global, founder and chairman at On Deck, and founding employee at Product Hunt. Erik Torenberg attended the University of Michigan.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Erik Torenberg invests in
Stages Erik Torenberg invests in
Countries Erik Torenberg invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (17%)
- Mobile Apps 5 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (17%)
- Consumer 3 (10%)
- Machine Learning 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (30%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Series D 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 23 (77%)
- Kenya 2 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Convoke is curating high-quality datasets, automating workflows, and building a software platform. | $8.6M / Seed / Aug 19, 2025 | ||
| Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $25M / Series D / May 13, 2025 | ||
| Elemind Technologies is a neurotechnology company that shapes brainwaves and changes brain states using novel neuromodulation techniques. The company was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $12M / Seed / Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| ValueBase is a software provider that focuses on offering cutting-edge options for real estate assessment.ValueBase's mission is to provide the most complete and accurate data and tools possible to property appraisers and other professionals in order to aid them in making educated judgments. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| At Pogo, our goal is to make you more money by unlocking the power of your data. | $12.3M / Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | ||
| Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. | $12.3M / Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | ||
| Plural.com is the first AI-driven marketplace for human talent. Our disruptive approach cuts 80% of the boring work and captures the market horizontally. We achieve this through a holistic understanding of humans, collecting rich data sets that niche incumbents cannot access. | $750K / Pre-Seed / Feb 27, 2022 | ||
| The New Sound of Entertainment | $685K / Pre-Seed / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. | $3M / Seed / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. | $3.6M / Seed / Jul 22, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Village Global
Village Global is an early stage venture capital firm backed by some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.
Village Global Contacts
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Anne Dwane
Co-Founder & Partner
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Ben Casnocha
Co-Founder & Partner
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Erik Torenberg
Co-Founder & Partner
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What does Erik Torenberg invest in?
Erik Torenberg invests primarily in Software, Mobile Apps and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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